> It's been working quite alright, though I now have a need for some > pretty heavy duty multilingual text in a single document, specifically > at least Burmese, Chinese, Lao, Thai and Vietnamese in addition to > English, French and German, and this is causing a huge headache. > > My problem at present is that if I type Chinese characters in to my > document, and the Document > Settings > Language > Encoding options is > set to something other than 'Unicode (XeTeX) (utf8)', then attempting > to view the document as PDF generates a LaTeX error. >
To get chinese to work (without XeTeX), I had to do the following: Document -> Settings -> Language -> Encoding -> Other: "Unicode (CJK) utf8" Document -> Settings -> Fonts -> CJK: "gbsn" The fonts you need are LaTeX fonts, the fonts in /usr/share/lyx/fonts won't help you compile the document. Vincent
